THE ENGINEERING SOLUTION

The heads of state of Earth's 190 polities are primarily frat
boys with great social skills (plus the sporadic perseveratively
homicidal despot). They are the worst possible people to be in
charge of anything requiring technical acumen. Do not patronize
accountants lacking arithmetic skills.

One nation is led by a profoundly competent engineer. He
nationally tested at the very top of his class. He whizzed
through higher education and mightily succeeded in his
profession. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads Iran, and he lusts for an
engineering solution to the US. It will not be realized through
a game of golf.

President Bush the Lesser was a freak excrescence of wealth and
privilege who boasted the intellectual prowess of a poikilotherm.
He and his equally capable ("character") cronies and appointees
destroyed a $14 trillion/year national GDP. President Barack
Obama is the best Harvard Law School could produce. He is a
gifted orator and Blackberry adept who could not fashion a baking
soda volcano for his kids. He is innocent of the science and
mathematics that define First World civilization.

A corporal gassed in WWI trenches went on to bigger things by not
fighting the previous war. Ahmadinejad loudly admires Adolph
Hitler - if not for his scope then for his empirical innovation.
While Homeland Severity sniffs a Maginot line of civilian shoes
in airports nationwide Iran end runs through metaphoric Belgium.
Ahmadinejad is dazzlingly shrewd at assembling modest resources
to great ends through abstract engineering optimization. Won't
Pentagon brass hats be surprised?

On 03 February 2009 Iran orbited its first homespun satellite
Omid (Farsi for "hope" - ho! ho! ho! and Shepard Fairey)
with its Safir-2 rocket. American Media were afire with Nuclear
Death Raining Down From The Skies. That was frat boys shotgunning
beers. Why vaporize a city when you can burn out every
microprocessor and circuit in an entire country? Drop every
airplane from the skies, too, with typically
5000 in the air at
any time throughout any weekday. Leave the population in
place - to riot.

On 09 July 1962, the US military on trifling Pacific atoll
Johnston Island launched a Thor ballistic missile with a 1.4
megaton hydrogen bomb detonated at 250 miles altitude.
Designated Starfish Prime, it knocked the crap out of everything
electronic from New Zealand to Hawaii at 810 mile radius with a
5000 volts/meter transverse electric field at Honolulu. Its
spreading radiation cloud juiced the van Allen belts, killing
seven low Earth orbit satellites of the time.

Much of the warhead's energy was emitted as 3 MeV x-rays from the
insane plasma of its detonated substance. They propagated line
of sight through vacuum down to atmosphere at 12-25 miles
altitude where a mighty ionization occurred. Freed electrons
spiraled around Earth magnetic field lines. Electron cyclotron
resonance emitted a prodigious oscillatory electromagnetic field
at 15 - 250 MHz for which every conductor and circuit trace is an
antenna. This an electromagnetic pulse, EMP. Emitting region
size varies with altitude and device yield.

As warhead plasma disperses a low-frequency electric field
reflects between the surface and the ionosphere, circling the
planet. This electric field is perhaps a millivolt/meter - but
there is a volumetric lot of it. It cumulatively fries long
terrestrial and underwater cables, blowing circuit breakers and
equipment at both ends, blacking out a nation.

On 22 October 1962, USSR Operation K detonated a 300 kiloton
warhead at 180 mile altitude near Dzhezkazgan. The EMP pushed
2500 amperes through 360 miles of overhead telephone lines,
melting them. It killed 620 miles of shallow-buried power cables
between Aqmola and Almaty.

Let us craft an engineering solution. Iran has a booster,
satellite capability, and nuclear warheads. Iran is signatory to
no nuclear testing or warfare treaties. (Neville Chamberlain's
flaccid sheet of Hitler-signed paper did not impede WWII). Orbit
the party favor to 300 miles altitude over Sault St. Marie east
of Lake Superior. A horseshoe-shaped emitter region south of
detonation, 1400 miles wide, ends First World civilization from
Maine to West Virginia, and west to Kansas City and Minneapolis.

Do it over Missoula, Idaho to uncreate the West Coast. One pop,
2000 planes fall out of the sky. Two pops, 4000 planes fall out
of the sky. This transcends a shoe bomb worn by a moron.

One might ponder what wars are being fought by the Pentagon as
you read this. The Korean war never ended. Europe is still rich
with US soldiers defending our economic competitors from
self-reliance. On 12 February 2009 CNN disclosed 87,000 M240
squad automatic weapons landed in Afghanistan and simply vanished.
Homeland Severity warrantlessly assaults, searches, and seizes US
citizens at airports in a jackbooted State compassion frenzy
reducing KGB ex-Director Vladimir Putin to heartfelt sobs of
envy.